Alexej von Jawlensky - Abstrakter Kopf: Bildnis Mela Escherich (Abstract Head: Portrait of Mela Escherich) - image-1

Lot 214 Dα

Alexej von Jawlensky - Abstrakter Kopf: Bildnis Mela Escherich (Abstract Head: Portrait of Mela Escherich)

Auction 997 - overview Cologne
22.05.2012, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 250.000 € - 300.000 €
Result: 268.400 € (incl. premium)
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Oil on cardboard 42.6 x 32.6 cm, framed. Monogrammed A.J. lower left and dated 27 in orange lower right. - Mounted on firmer cardboard backing. The reverse side with a 1909 "Murnau Landscape" was already detached earlier (see M. Jawlensky/Pieroni-Jawlensky/A. Jawlensky, vol. I, 263).

M. Jawlensky/Pieroni-Jawlensky/A. Jawlensky, vol. II, 1270; Weiler 321

Provenance

From the artist's studio; Mela Escherich, Wiesbaden; Galerie Jacques Fricker, Paris; Galerie Aenne Abels, Cologne; private collection Westphalia; private collection Rhineland

Literature

Fritz Junghans, Alexej von Jawlensky, in: Alte und Neue Kunst, vol. X, nr. 2/3, 1959, p. 12 with ill.

Exhibitions

Wiesbaden 1954 (Neues Museum), Gedächtnisausstellung Alexej von Jawlensky 1864-1941, cat. nr. 66 (without ill.)